The 6th edition of The Script Road – Macau Literary Festival will kick off on Saturday (4th March) with comic book authors Dick Ng, Filipe Melo, Philippe Graton and Clément Baloup, who will deliver a talk on “Illustrating Words – The Art of Comics”.
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The government has paid about MOP 3.91 million in compensation to suppliers affected by bird flu outbreaks since 2014, Central District Social Services Consultative Committee Deputy Convenor Un Sio Leng said on Wednesday.
The Legend Palace Hotel, the latest addition to the portfolio of Macau Legend Development Limited (MLD), opened on Monday with 66 gaming tables.
The police busted 32 organised crime cases last year, a year-on-year increase of 146 percent from just 13 such cases in 2015, Secretary for Scurity Wong Sio Chak said on Monday.
The now defunct Telecommunications Regulation Bureau (DSRT) failed to properly monitor and supervise its WiFi GO service so that WiFi GO service points in the city are affected by poor connection quality, the Commission of Audit (CA) said in report on Monday.
The Government Information Bureau (GCS) plans to provide information about the government on Facebook and Instagram, Victor Chan Chi Ping, who heads both the Government Information Bureau (GCS) and the Government Spokesperson’s Office, said on Tuesday.
Setting up smoking lounges in casinos is not contrary to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) suggestion of building a smoke-free environment, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng said on Monday.
Representatives of several taxi groups submitted a joint application for an increase in taxi fare to the Transport Bureau (DSAT) on Monday. The cabbies insisted that the increase was needed to keep pace with the sector’s rising running costs.
Macao Water Executive Director Nacky Kuan Sio Peng said on Wednesday that construction of the Seac Pai Van water treatment plant was slated to start in the middle of this year, adding that the facility is planned to be operational in 2019.